Empire and Environmental Anxiety [electronic resource] : Health, Science, Art and Conservation in South Asia and Australasia, 1800-1920 /
Beattie, J.author.
A new interpretation of imperialism and environmental change, and the anxieties imperialism generated through environmental transformation and interaction with unknown landscapes. Tying together South Asia and Australasia, this book demonstrates how environmental anxieties led to increasing state resource management, conservation, and urban reform.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Origins of environmental anxieties -- Imperial health anxieties -- Colonial aesthetic anxieties -- Scottish-trained doctors : environmental anxieties and Imperial development, 1780s-1870s -- German science and Imperial forestry, 1840s-1900s -- South Asian and Australasian forestry -- Anxieties and exchanges, 1870s-1920s -- Thwarting Imperial agricultural development : the spectre of drifting sands, 1800s-1920s -- Conclusion.
A new interpretation of imperialism and environmental change, and the anxieties imperialism generated through environmental transformation and interaction with unknown landscapes. Tying together South Asia and Australasia, this book demonstrates how environmental anxieties led to increasing state resource management, conservation, and urban reform.
Environmental policy.
Asia—History.
Imperialism.
Social history.
Islands of the Pacific—History.
Environmental management.
Environmental Politics.
Asian History.
Imperialism and Colonialism.
Social History.
Australasian History.
Environmental Management.